Color

Who Can Wear Mint Green?

Mint Green is pale cool green.

Mint Green

#9FD9BC

Mint Green (#9FD9BC) suits 7 of the 12 color seasons — Light Spring, True Spring and Light Summer, plus 4 more. In Light Spring the closest match is Spring Aqua (#8FD6C6) — near enough to read as one of theirs. No season has to rule it out, though 5 should wear it with care.

Mint Green at a glance

Summary of how Mint Green reads across the 12 color seasons
Hex	#9FD9BC
Seasons that wear it	7 — Light Spring, True Spring, Light Summer, True Summer, Soft Summer, Soft Autumn and True Winter
Wearable with care	5 — Bright Spring, True Autumn, Deep Autumn, Deep Winter and Bright Winter
Seasons that should skip it	None — no avoid list holds a close match
Undertone it reads as	Cool (pink/blue-based) — 4 of the 7 seasons that wear it
Measured against	336 swatches across 12 palettes

Which color seasons can wear Mint Green?

All 12 seasons, best first. Each row names the closest swatch to #9FD9BC in that season's palette — the actual color the verdict was measured against.

Which of the 12 color seasons can wear Mint Green
Light Spring	In the paletteLight Spring Spring Aqua#8FD6C6 Mint Green sits inside the Light Spring palette — its closest match is Spring Aqua (#8FD6C6).
True Spring	In the paletteTrue Spring Jade Pool#5BC2A8 Mint Green sits inside the True Spring palette — its closest match is Jade Pool (#5BC2A8).
Light Summer	In the paletteLight Summer Cool Mint#A8DEC6 Mint Green sits inside the Light Summer palette — its closest match is Cool Mint (#A8DEC6).
True Summer	In the paletteTrue Summer Cool Jade#5FA88F Mint Green sits inside the True Summer palette — its closest match is Cool Jade (#5FA88F).
Soft Summer	In the paletteSoft Summer Eucalyptus#8FAF9C Mint Green sits inside the Soft Summer palette — its closest match is Eucalyptus (#8FAF9C).
Soft Autumn	In the paletteSoft Autumn Soft Teal#6D9A93 Mint Green sits inside the Soft Autumn palette — its closest match is Soft Teal (#6D9A93).
True Winter	In the paletteTrue Winter Icy Mint#CFF0E2 Mint Green sits inside the True Winter palette — its closest match is Icy Mint (#CFF0E2).
Bright Spring	With careBright Spring Warm White#FBF4E4 Mint Green is not a Bright Spring color, but Warm White (#FBF4E4) gives you the same idea in the right undertone.
True Autumn	With careTrue Autumn Warm Turquoise#2E8578 Mint Green is not a True Autumn color, but Warm Turquoise (#2E8578) gives you the same idea in the right undertone.
Deep Autumn	With careDeep Autumn Pine#25573D Mint Green is not a Deep Autumn color, but Pine (#25573D) gives you the same idea in the right undertone.
Deep Winter	With careDeep Winter Crisp White#FAFAFA Mint Green is not a Deep Winter color, but Crisp White (#FAFAFA) gives you the same idea in the right undertone.
Bright Winter	With careBright Winter Pure White#FFFFFF Mint Green is not a Bright Winter color, but Pure White (#FFFFFF) gives you the same idea in the right undertone.

Who should skip Mint Green?

Nobody, as it turns out. Nothing on any season's avoid list sits close to #9FD9BC, which makes Mint Green one of the easier colors in the index: 7 seasons wear it outright and the other 5 can wear it with care rather than skipping it.

How we work this out

No opinions on this page. Mint Green's reference hex (#9FD9BC) is converted to CIELAB and measured against every one of the 336 swatches in the 12 season palettes — the same palettes the paid report ships.

The distance is weighted for this job rather than for general color matching: lightness counts at 0.6× and the yellow–blue axis at 1.5×, because seasonal analysis is an undertone judgement before it is a depth one. Mint Green lands in a palette when its nearest flattering swatch falls inside the in-palette band, and on the skip list when a swatch from that season's avoid list is closer still.

What it measures is the color, not your face. Which of these seasons is yours is the question the quiz and selfie answer.

Mint Green: common questions

What color season wears Mint Green?

Mint Green sits inside 7 of the 12 season palettes: Light Spring, True Spring, Light Summer, True Summer, Soft Summer, Soft Autumn and True Winter. In each of those, the closest match is a real swatch from that palette rather than an approximation of one.

Does Mint Green suit warm or cool skin?

Of the 7 seasons Mint Green suits, the undertone split is 3 warm, 4 cool and 0 neutral — so it behaves as a cool color. Depth and clarity then decide which seasons on that side can carry it.

Who should not wear Mint Green?

Nobody has to rule Mint Green out. No season's avoid list holds a close match to #9FD9BC, so the worst case is wearing it with care — away from the face, or broken up with a palette color.

Can I wear Mint Green if I'm a Soft Summer?

Yes. Mint Green sits inside the Soft Summer palette — its closest match is Eucalyptus (#8FAF9C).

What can I wear instead of Mint Green?

Nothing needs replacing — Mint Green is not on any season's avoid list. If it is not in your palette, wear it away from the face and let a palette color sit next to your skin.

How do you decide which seasons Mint Green suits?

We convert #9FD9BC to CIELAB and measure it against all 336 swatches in the 12 season palettes, weighting the yellow–blue axis up and lightness down because seasonal analysis is an undertone judgement first. Mint Green lands in a palette when its nearest flattering swatch is closer than the in-palette band, and on the skip list when the nearest avoid-list swatch is closer still.

How do I know which color season I am?

Take the 2-minute quiz and add one selfie. Palettewell reads your skin, hair and eye color, returns your season with the full palette, and then Mint Green stops being a general question and becomes a yes or no about your own colors.